Re: Bench testing cast track links [TANKS]

["Marc en Wendy" <marcmethorst-at-zonnet.nl>]

Chris wrote:

 

> depending on how good your friend is with casting, you could have had a pin put into your master wood pattern and when he where to

> cast, he could have cast in place brass sleves (sp?) this would help in preventing some wear (I have does this with submarine

> appendages and it works well).

 

Must be possible I guess. Thanks for the input.

 

> I have thought of casting complete links and pinning them, but I haven't come up with a way to pin them

> together that I like yet.

 

The original T34 method is tempting. I have never seen it but read about it: they used a nail shaped pin (so a head on one end and the other end tapered). Just below the drive sprocket a plate was welded to the hull. The pins that 'walked' out of the track links during one rev of the track were slammed back into the hole as by the steel plate. I just like the idea because it's simple.

 

Marc